Surgery: Greater London

Tom Brake: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many operations were cancelled at each London hospital within  (a) seven days and  (b) 24 hours of the appointment in each of the last five years.

Ben Bradshaw: The information requested is shown in the following table.
	
		
			  Cancelled operations for non clinical reasons, NHS organisations in London, 2002-03 to 2006-07 and  2007-08 Q1 only 
			Number of last minute cancs for non clinical reasons 
			  Org ID  Name  2002-03  2003-04  2004-05  2005-06  2006-07  2007-08( 1) 
			  England 67,254 66,303 68,569 60,803 52,005 12,492 
			 RF4 Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust 2,168 2,147 2,426 1,566 906 140 
			 RVL Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust 1,346 404 399 279 294 66 
			 RNJ Barts and The London NHS Trust 928 593 502 506 531 96 
			 RG3 Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust 324 425 289 214 181 32 
			 RQM Chelsea and Westminster Healthcare NHS Trust 185 151 180 115 103 41 
			 RC3 Ealing Hospital NHS Trust 267 206 140 142 124 46 
			 RVR Epsom and St. Helier NHS Trust 353 698 608 281 270 121 
			 RP4 Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust 290 143 119 146 115 30 
			 RJ1 Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust 554 450 739 884 866 287 
			 RQN Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust 504 390 688 625 614 160 
			 RQX Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 52 68 24 45 50 20 
			 RJZ King's College Hospital NHS Trust 318 180 227 209 153 51 
			 RAX Kingston Hospital NHS Trust 140 223 168 182 116 45 
			 RJ6 Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust 549 678 226 129 50 11 
			 RP6 Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 74 74 62 292 151 72 
			 RNH Newham University Hospital NHS Trust 226 156 118 79 146 46 
			 RV8 North West London Hospitals NHS Trust 617 433 542 480 457 88 
			 RGZ Queen Mary's Sidcup NHS Trust 199 75 91 52 78 24 
			 RT3 Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust 244 190 183 233 177 43 
			 RAL Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust 341 285 306 460 268 48 
			 RAN Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust 151 154 97 144 167 54 
			 RJ7 St. George's Healthcare NHS Trust 354 765 1,065 753 666 143 
			 RBN St. Helens and Knowsley Hospitals NHS Trust 171 126 192 159 193 45 
			 RJ5 St. Mary's NHS Trust 97 365 367 303 192 25 
			 RAS The Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust 360 247 137 150 103 17 
			 RJ2 The Lewisham Hospital NHS Trust 42 199 187 136 165 25 
			 RPY The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust 68 83 141 72 79 14 
			 RKE The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust 134 87 102 122 111 34 
			 RRV University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 157 272 483 547 605 161 
			 RFW West Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust 105 116 52 69 28 30 
			 RGC Whipps Cross University Hospital NHS Trust 332 389 494 312 261 36 
			 (1) Q1 only  Notes: The table shows the organisations as they existed, at the time of each collection. A last minute cancellation is one that occurs on the day the patient was due to arrive, after they have arrived in hospital or on the day of their operation. Some common non-clinical reasons for cancellations by the hospital include: ward beds unavailable; surgeon unavailable; emergency case needing theatre; theatre list over-ran; equipment failure; admin error; anaesthetist unavailable; theatre staff unavailable; and critical care bed unavailable. An operation which is rescheduled to a time within 24 hours of the original scheduled operation should be recorded as a postponement and not as a cancellation. The QMCO collection does not record the number of postponements.  Source:  Department of Health dataset QMCO